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Research, Release, Fork, Update, Repeat. Winner of the 2022 ALPSP Innovation in Publishing Award. https://gigabytejournal.com/
This paper showcases our multilingual functionality, with a Spanish language version on our website, PMC and in SciELO preprints doi.org/10.1590/SciE...
September 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Having >2200 attendees at #ISMBECCB2025 has made the poster sessions pretty full on. Great there are long coffee sessions but can barely get through all of the aisles #ISMB2025
July 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In the Analytic tools and pipelines track of #BOSC2025, interesting to see @nextflow.io in 2024 overtook #usegalaxy to become the most widely used workflow manager in bioinformatics #ISMB2025 #ISMBECCB2025
July 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Liverpool seems a great location for #ISMBECCB2025 #ISMB2025, with a fab first morning keynote from Amos Bairoch
July 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
There is still to register for the 25th Genomic Standards Consortium meeting in Cambridge genomicsstandardsconsortium.github.io/GSC25-Cambri... #GSC25
June 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Presenting new genomes from a genus of freshwater cavefish that are potentially interesting models for studying cave adaptation and phylogenetic evolution.

Chromosome-level genome assemblies of five Sinocyclocheilus species. doi.org/10.46471/gig...
May 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Thanks to these efforts we were selected from the nearly 150,000 journals from 22,000 members using @crossref.bsky.social infrastructure for having the highest #metadata completeness (82%) in the small publishers category. You can also read more in their blog www.crossref.org/blog/crossre...
May 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Huge thanks to our partners @rivervalley1000.bsky.social
for their state-of-the-art publishing platform and the responsiveness of their team in addressing our exacting metadata standards. Their ReView platform has also just won an EPIC award rivervalley.io/news/river-v...
May 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
We are honored to win one of the inaugural @crossref.bsky.social Metadata Excellence Awards, recognising efforts in scholarly publishing #metadata completeness and enrichment in our journal. 🎉🏆🏅http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/gigascience-press-wins-crossref-metada-award/
May 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Want to know more about #datapublishing and our vectors of human disease series? Join our free webinar tomorrow (3pm UTC) where we'll get some author insight and guidance from the @gbif.org helpdesk cassyni.com/events/iAC1q...
April 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
We've extended the call for papers for our vectors of human disease series to 6th June and also are announcing a webinar with @gbif.org on 22nd April gigasciencejournal.com/blog/extende...

To find out more sign up for the webinar here cassyni.com/events/iAC1q...
April 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
You'll get hands on training on how to submit your data to @gbif.org and write data papers eligible for our sponsored vectors of human disease search gigasciencejournal.com/blog/round-t...
March 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Applications are open for the TDR and @gbif.org supported training on "Data Sharing on Vectors to Prevent and Control Vector-Borne Disease" at the WAASuN meeting on 23rd/24th June waasun.org/events/train...
March 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Great to visit Kasetsart Uni Dept of Entomology today and see a talk from Prof Ju Hyeon Kim (SNU) about Medical Entomology and Vector Research in Korea. Giving a shoutout to TDR, was a very topical talk in light of our vectors of human disease series call gigasciencejournal.com/blog/round-t...
February 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Presenting our first examples of publishing peer-reviewed protocol papers with @protocolsio.bsky.social gigasciencejournal.com/blog/publish...

See our first protocol with a peer-reviewed method badge dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro...

And the paper embedding the protocol here
doi.org/10.46471/gig...
January 31, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Happy New Year of the Snake Genomes doi.org/10.46471/GIG...
January 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Great to see one of our papers showcased in this collaboration.

Crossing the Open Science Streams: Cassyni X Sciety (and GigaByte) FTW gigasciencejournal.com/blog/cassyni...
January 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
More examples of our interactive figures functionality, see Figure 9 of "CannSeek? Yes we Can! An open-source single nucleotide polymorphism database and analysis portal for Cannabis sativa" gigabytejournal.com/articles/135...
November 22, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Just out are new papers presenting resources from the International Cannabis Genome Research Consortium.

The first on their new database:
CannSeek? Yes we Can! An open-source single nucleotide polymorphism database and analysis portal for Cannabis sativa doi.org/10.46471/gigab
October 23, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Filling the Biodiversity Dark Spots: Announcing the #AsiaNatureChallenge

We are helping CitizenScience.Asia mobilise #CitizenScientists Across Asia for a groundbreaking biodiversity initiative from Oct 18-27
gigasciencejournal.com/blog/biodive... #ANC2024
October 10, 2024 at 10:33 AM
The fastest genome project in the west? From 0-39 chromosome-length scaffolds in less than a week.

High-speed whole-genome sequencing of a Whippet: Rapid chromosome-level assembly and annotation of an extremely fast dog’s genome doi.org/10.46471/gig...
October 3, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Combining #Snakemake + QIIME2 with in vitro validated settings to open up #microbiome analysis to new users.

RiboSnake – a user-friendly, robust, reproducible, multipurpose and documentation-extensive pipeline for 16S rRNA gene microbiome analysis doi.org/10.46471/gig...
September 3, 2024 at 4:22 AM
An important milestone in the discoverability and visibility of a new journal has been passed. We are please to announce all GigaByte content is now indexed in Scopus www.scopus.com/sourceid/211...
July 1, 2024 at 6:54 AM
Transparency FTW! Our latest GigaBlog Q&A with Kuan-lin Huang covers declaring LLMs in publishing, OpenBoxScience, and his GetFreeCopy #OA paper finder we've just published gigasciencejournal.com/blog/llms-op...

Read the GetFreeCopy paper here doi.org/10.46471/gig...
May 31, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Another marine invertebrate genome from the Hong Kong Biodiversity Genomics Consortium.

Chromosome-level genome assembly of the common chiton, Liolophura japonica (Lischke, 1873) doi.org/10.46471/gig...
May 7, 2024 at 2:37 PM